In a rematch of last year's national championship, Stanwick had
three goals and five assists. He provided helpers on two of Chris
Bocklet's three goals. Stanwick also scored a goal that put the
Cavaliers up 9-7 and assisted on another that gave Virginia another
key two-goal lead with 8:20 left.

But it was not a comfortable win for the reigning champs, who
were coming off a one-goal loss at home to Johns Hopkins a week
earlier. Maryland led 7-5 midway through the third quarter before
Cavaliers (9-1, 1-0 ACC) overcame the deficit and finished off
Maryland, in part by winning the second-half ground ball battle
19-8 and getting timely saves from goaltender Rob Fortunato, who
made 15.

Virginia scored seven of the game's final eight goals. Maryland
falls to 5-3 and 1-2 in the ACC with the loss. Joe Cummings and
Michael Shakespeare led the Terps with two goals apiece.

"It was a real slugfest there, especially through the first half
[that ended tied at 5]," Virginia coach Dom Starsia said. "It felt
like we hadn't scored an easy goal for a long time. When things
aren't going great, or there's not a lot of sparkle out there, you
just need a couple of your big boys to step up and make plays. As
that game was being decided, that's exactly what happened."

Stanwick, guarded by Maryland freshman longpole Goran Murray for
most of the game, took matters into his own hands with the
Cavaliers trailing by two with 6:14 left in the third quarter. On
the crease, Stanwick took on Murray one-on-one, and just before
colliding with a slide, stuffed a shot past Niko Amato to cut the
Maryland lead to 7-6.

Rob Emery scored from Stanwick to tie the game. Virginia went up
9-7 with 10:33 left in the fourth when Bocklet fed Stanwick for a
high-to-high goal near goal-line extended to the left of Amato. Two
minutes later, Stanwick delivered a spot feed in front to Matt
White, who put the Cavaliers up 10-8.

Stanwick's goal just over a minute later that put the Cavaliers
up by three is one to add to his career highlight package. On the
ground with defenders on him near the crease to the right of Amato,
he somehow threw the ball in one-handed.

"I stumbled and kind of ran into a double-team, I don't even
know," said Stanwick, who tied a career high in points set last
season in a pair of games against Bucknell and Mount St. Mary's.
"My instincts took over. I just kind of jumped and spun and came
down. I know I was close to crease, but I'm glad the refs said it
was a goal."

Maryland split its faceoff duties between Curtis Holmes, who has
been dealing with injury, and freshman Charlie Raffa, a member of
the U.S U19 team. Raffa went 5-for-15 and Holmes went 5-for-8 and
the latter took the majority of the draws in the fourth
quarter.

Maryland played a turnover-free fourth, which began tied at
seven, but Virginia had the edge in second-chance opportunities,
Terps coach John Tillman said.

Ryan Benincasa (9-for-15 on faceoffs) and Stanwick led Virginia
with five ground balls. Seventeen Cavaliers were credited with at
least one ground ball.

"There were some 50-50 ground balls of faceoffs that they got,"
Tillman said. "It felt like the ball just kept ending up at that
end ... For a while, in the third quarter, we had a good tempo
going but they made some saves when they needed to make them. They
got stops when they needed to get them, and Stanwick stepped up and
made some plays that only he can make."

"You can't give that offense a lot of chances. You have to get
the ball off the ground. They're dangerous in so many spots. If
Stanwick's not getting you, then it's Emery, [Colin] Briggs and on
and on and on. In the first half, we didn't play our best, but we
managed the game well. We had the ball on offense a lot. They zoned
us, we did fine against it, had a long possession and scored. We
were where we needed to be at halftime."